This is the last re-upload from the "A _ Dose of _ Psych" series which was originally posted here back in 2006. For those of you who missed it the first time around, I hope you enjoyed this amazing set of psychedelic rock compilations.
Here is the 3rd installment of the Arf Arf label's series of 60's garage-psych rock compilations. I found out the name of the remaining album, which I have yet to download. It's called A Heavy Dose of Lyte Psych. I'll begin the search for that one tomorrow, so hopefully I can complete the series.
What sets this apart from the many other similar '60s garage-psych releases is the extremeness of the music. Tracks collected here feature grungier guitars, slower or varied tempos and darker and more ominous atmosphere than earlier punk singles...and more fuzz and heavier feedback (even the occasional oscillator). These tracks were typically cut later than many of the other garage-band compilation series, and influences are second generation bands like Steppenwolf, Blue Cheer, Love, and the Stooges. While poppier sounds are eschewed on these sides, according to the liner notes these heavier slabs are the flip sides of lighter material. If the ballads on garage comps are the ones you skip over, by all means pick up a copy of this collection...you won't be disappointed. An extra bonus are six caveman-stomping cuts by the Boneheaded 31 Flavors, originally from two low-budget psych-sploitation albums on the Crown label.
Label: Arf! Arf!
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Bitrate: 320VBR
Track List:
1. From The Womb To The Tomb - Orange Wedge
2. Everything - Quiet Jungle
3. You Don't Remember - 20th Century Zoo
4. Relative Distance - Fumin' Humins
5. Powered By Love - Powered By Love
6. You And Me - Crystal Rain
7. Mushroom People - ESB
8. Memories - Colder Children
9. Savage Lost - Kollection
10. Blue Avenue - Kindred Spirit
11. Plastic Year - Bluerebus
12. Search Your Soul - Shadows Of Time
13. You're In My Mind - Graf Zeppelin
14. Salem Witch Trial - Kiriae Crucible
15. My Daze - Boston Tea Party
16. Watch Out - Paraphernalia
17. Ferris Wheel - Dooley, Ira
18. Easy Rider - Loose Endz
19. Silence Of The Morning - Glass Sun
20. Reflections - Firebirds
21. Gypsy Fire - No Tomorrows
22. Free Drum - Free Fuzz
Here is the 3rd installment of the Arf Arf label's series of 60's garage-psych rock compilations. I found out the name of the remaining album, which I have yet to download. It's called A Heavy Dose of Lyte Psych. I'll begin the search for that one tomorrow, so hopefully I can complete the series.
What sets this apart from the many other similar '60s garage-psych releases is the extremeness of the music. Tracks collected here feature grungier guitars, slower or varied tempos and darker and more ominous atmosphere than earlier punk singles...and more fuzz and heavier feedback (even the occasional oscillator). These tracks were typically cut later than many of the other garage-band compilation series, and influences are second generation bands like Steppenwolf, Blue Cheer, Love, and the Stooges. While poppier sounds are eschewed on these sides, according to the liner notes these heavier slabs are the flip sides of lighter material. If the ballads on garage comps are the ones you skip over, by all means pick up a copy of this collection...you won't be disappointed. An extra bonus are six caveman-stomping cuts by the Boneheaded 31 Flavors, originally from two low-budget psych-sploitation albums on the Crown label.
Label: Arf! Arf!
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Bitrate: 320VBR
Track List:
1. From The Womb To The Tomb - Orange Wedge
2. Everything - Quiet Jungle
3. You Don't Remember - 20th Century Zoo
4. Relative Distance - Fumin' Humins
5. Powered By Love - Powered By Love
6. You And Me - Crystal Rain
7. Mushroom People - ESB
8. Memories - Colder Children
9. Savage Lost - Kollection
10. Blue Avenue - Kindred Spirit
11. Plastic Year - Bluerebus
12. Search Your Soul - Shadows Of Time
13. You're In My Mind - Graf Zeppelin
14. Salem Witch Trial - Kiriae Crucible
15. My Daze - Boston Tea Party
16. Watch Out - Paraphernalia
17. Ferris Wheel - Dooley, Ira
18. Easy Rider - Loose Endz
19. Silence Of The Morning - Glass Sun
20. Reflections - Firebirds
21. Gypsy Fire - No Tomorrows
22. Free Drum - Free Fuzz
9 comments:
It's a great serie Zer0, cheers for upping those albums for us. I hope you find the last volume before long! "See" ya around Zer0.
Much thanks for the psych comps - great stuff.
thanks for posting these...years ago i had the first two cds but sold them to a used shop for gas money. they will be great to listen to again.
I seem to be having trouble downloading these, well, any gigasize file, I just keep having to enter the letters over and over again and when i finally get the download button it doesnt start the download, it just goes back to the letters, so if you could help me out, let me know what Im doing wrong If I am infact doing anything wrong i would greatly appreciate it. Awesome blog by the way, good shit. Thanks
Great comp as it contains the Crescent Six's "And Then," a one-of-kind recording, brilliant yet inconsequential track. Recorded in 1965 on the legendary Rust label, it's genre buster. What is it, a Zombies rip-off, a jazzy, downcast rave up, some Jersey-based teen angst scene we know nothing about? The first moody verse -- which twists around its own minor chord construction -- breaks off with an ascending chorus as the bass player roams the frets wildly followed by a guitar rave-up, using that post-surf guitar sound that with a few drugs and psychedelic bends turned into the San Francisco sound a year later. The pattern repeats again, but this time the rave-up is halted after the second measure and the guitarist sits it out for nearly four measures, while the rhythm grinds on. What, did he run out of riffs? To add interest to the last verse, the drummer beats a full set roll, similar to the Master's Apprentice "Wars on the Hands of Time." The song ends with one of those minor-to-major changes with a wobbling bass that sounds like its right off the first and only Salvation Army album. Was this a surf band that got a heavy dose of the Zombies? Where are they now?
JWM
Thanks for this. Incidentally, ESB became Fields, who put out an album in 1969 that's worth seeking out.
Anon: great comment on the Crescent Six...however, it's actually Track 18 on 062 [A Heavy Dose of Light Psych]: i have the cd in my hands as i type this. It's ok: very confusing titling concept for this 4-cd series.
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